Musings From A Rolling Eyed Turtle

In journalism, the “Five 'W's” help journalists address fundamental questions that should be answered in a story for the benefit of the reader or viewer.  These “Five W’s” are “Who,” “What,” “When,” “Where,” and “Why.” .     I was recently reading in John 4 about the type of worshippers that God seeks (v23).  While the type of worshippers is a topic for another day, a question came to mind:  if God is seeking worshippers, should worshippers also be seeking God?  To try to answer that, I applied the five “W’s to the phrases “seek the Lord” and “seek Him”: “That the rest of mankind may seek the Lord, even all the Gentiles who bear my name,” says the Lord, who does these things.  (Acts 15:17) The “ who ” seems to be both us (mankind) and God (the One we should seek).   “Then I turned my face to the Lord God, seeking him by prayer and pleas for mercy with fasting and sackcloth and ashes.” (Dan 9:3) The “ what” seems to be that we tur...

Wings are a popular food item these days. There are even restaurants where wings are the featured menu item.  Or, if you prefer to cook your own, one cooking web site has 23 best recipes for wings.  And if that isn’t enough, another site has 30.  But neither come close to one web site that has 160 ways to cook them! As one allergic to chicken, I can’t say that I get excited about any of that.  But, I can say that I do get excited about God’s wings!  Ok, so God probably doesn’t really have wings but He does describe how He cares for us using some word pictures that involve wings.  For example: “He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler.”  (Ps 91:4) Birds take their vulnerable hatchlings under their wings to shelter and protect them.  Being u nder God’s wings is a picture of God providing protective refuge, shelter and defense for us.  Then there’s this verse: ...